Clementine:
"Please go out and wait for me outside." The alpha patted his daughterโs arm.
He suddenly calmed himself, and I could tell the council members were still struggling to understand the whole situation. They shook their heads, and Sylvia even hid her face in her hands.
"Is it true? Have you all been watching everything? Is it true that the monsters are created by you?" Sylvia asked, finally voicing the right questions, while the alpha began to panic.
"I will not answer until Vanessa leaves," he insisted. His daughter shook her head at him, clearly disappointed.
"Iโll be waiting right outside," she replied, then stepped out.
Now it was the four of us. I expected the alpha to start lying, but instead he dropped to his knees at Sylviaโs feet.
"Please forgive us. It was not my idea. This started with our ancestors. Our parents began all of this. We are just trying to clean it up now, but also," he paused.
I shook my head in disbelief. He avoided looking at me and continued speaking to Sylvia and Roberto.
"Please stop this girl. You have no idea what this will do. It will ruin everything. It will even ruin your reputation. People will question why you never figured this out."
As he kept speaking, I began to worry. He was very convincing. And the way Roberto and Sylvia started to get out of their chairs, I began to worry about their verdict.
The two council members rose from their seats, watching the man beg at their feet, pleading with them to stop me from speaking and exposing everything.
"Please listen to me," he begged again.
Lady Sylvia raised her palm.
"Listen to you and let our youngsters die for your entertainment?" she snapped, making the alpha suddenly break down in tears.
"Please, this will ruin us. People will demand the dethroning of all the alphas. They will even question your ability," he cried.
Robertoโs cough cut him off.
"You think you can scare us?" he asked casually.
I let out a deep breath. I was about to tell them that Ian was already working on exposing these people, and that their support and refusal to be manipulated had confirmed we had taken the right step.
However, before I could speak, Lady Sylvia crossed the room and stopped in front of me, tears in her eyes.
"We disappointed you all," she uttered. "But now we are in this together. We are going to stop these people."
As soon as she said that, I smiled. Then, suddenly, I felt something stab into my back.
I turned and saw the alpha standing behind me. I had no idea when he got there.
One moment he had been begging at their feet, and the next he was stabbing me in the neck.
I pulled away and shoved him back, touching my neck and realizing he had injected me with a large amount of Wolfsbane.
What worried me was that the council members did not look alarmed.
"What the hell?" I grunted, touching my neck again and again. Dizziness hit me almost instantly from the amount injected.
"Did you really think we were doing all of that without their assistance?" the alpha asked, chuckling. His earlier tears were fake.


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